The Health Quality & Safety Commission, in partnership with the Health Roundtable, will host Jeanne Huddleston from the Mayo Clinic to deliver a full day interactive workshop on improving reliability of systems to detect and rescue deteriorating patients.

An initial stakeholder workshop will be held in Wellington on 12 December. The Commission is in the process of appointing a provider to develop an investment case for a national programme to reduce harm from clinical deterioration of patients in hospital.

The December 2014 edition of Let's Talk Triggers, a quarterly newsletter from the Commission's Global Trigger Tools programme containing updates, trigger tool tips, featured articles and other items on patient safety.